The Securities and Exchange Commission is adopting, as an interim final rule, rule 160 under the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt from the consumer consent requirements of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ("Electronic Signatures Act") prospectuses of registered investment companies that are used for the sole purpose of permitting supplemental sales literature to be provided to prospective investors. Consistent with Commission interpretations of existing law, the rule permits a registered investment company to provide its prospectus and supplemental sales literature on its web site or by other electronic means without first obtaining investor consent to the electronic format of the prospectus. The Commission also is clarifying its interpretation on the responsibility of registered investment companies for hyperlinks to third-party web sites from their advertisements or sales literature.